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Ed sighed as he listened to some of the soldiers talking about the huge homunculus they had to deal with. Though they didn't know it was a homunculus, they didn't have any idea what it was and Ed wasn't able to even tell them what it was.
It was tough being stuck inside a cell. What was worse was they were bringing in a few soldiers from Central! If it was that dumb Colonel!
"Hey, Ed," Ed looked up to see Falman and Buccaneer with a rope in front of his cell.
Ed paled, "Your not going to hang me are you?" He asked, honestly he didn't trust the Briggs Soldiers not to hang him!
"We're taking you to talk to Major General," Buccaneer stated as they opened his cell up and tied him up real tight.
Ed raised an eyebrow, "Why?" He asked.
"Officals from Central want to talk to you about that monster you seem to know," Buccaneer explained as the two began practically dragging him along and then he almost tripped when the halted.
"What the?" Ed asked looking up.
Standing in front of them in a white suit and hat was Zolf Kimblee, behind him was...
"Alphonse?" Ed asked in surprise. No, this wasn't Alphonse, this was Envy, he reminded himself.
But Alphonse just smiled innocently at him, "Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you, Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist," He said, "I'm Lieutenant Colonel Alfonse Abrahms, but you must already know that if you knew my name," He said.
Ed nodded, so he was calling himself 'Aphonse', that was if people recognized him, or well, Al's body, and said 'Alphonse' it would easily be mistaken as Alfonse. Ed had to admit, it was really clever of him.
"Where's Lieutenant General Raven?" Buccaneer asked, so they were with a Lieutenant General as well.
Alfonse/Alphonse/Envy, whatever he was supposed to be called waved his hand offhandedly, "He is having a chat with Major General Armstrong," He said with a pleasent smile. "It's a pleasure to meet you too, Captain Buccaneer, correct? And...1st Lieutenant Falman." He said, he sounded so honest, like he truly was pleased to meet the two.
He was just trying to gain a tad bit of their trust. Ed could see through Envys acting.
Kimblee clapped his hands in amusement, "Well now, it would be best if we were to go now, we wouldn't want to keep Armstrong and Raven waiting, would we?" He said, he had the same fake kindness as well.
The three nodded and followed the two, Ed a tad bit relunctantly. As they neared the room Sloth had broken into, a soldier ran by and bumped into Buccaneer.
"What's the hurry?" Buccaneer asked.
"We're supposed to wake up that monster and put him back in the hole," The soldier said, sounding shocked, "Major Generals orders!"
It was easy to say that Ed, Falman and Buccaneer were surprised by this, "What?" they said in unison, after all the trouble they went through to get that thing in the state it was right now, they were supposed to wake it up!
Envy just smirked as he watched them drag the giant Homunculus into the room and walked up to the dark skinned soldier who was General Raven.
"Leave it to me, he's most likely going to listen to me more so then you," He told the general in a whisper so Major General Armstrong wouldn't hear.
General Raven nodded, "Go ahead, Alfonse," he said and 'Alfonse' walked towards the sleeping homunculus as it started to twitch and jerked up.
Sloth looked around at everyone and his gaze fell on the smirking Envy.
"Good morning, Sloth!" Envy said, loud so everyone could hear, "Did you have a restful sleep?" He asked.
With Ed, Kimblee and Falman, Buccaneer scowled. "What is he doing? Does he actually know this monster?" He asked more to himself.
"I think it's something like that," Ed muttered, of course Envy would know Sloth. They were both homunculi, both monsters.
Sloth looked at Envy, "Who...are...you?" He asked.
Envy laughed, "Of course you don't recognise me, you just woke up so that is understandable, not to mention we haven't seen each other in a year," He explained, so the soldiers would believe him and Sloth would know they knew each other.
"Now, Sloth," Envy said, "It's time for you to get back to work. You got a nice and restful sleep but you need to keep working!"
Sloth just stared, "Don't...want... to work..." He said.
Envy just smiled, it would take someone who really knew Envy to know that it was a malicious smile, "Now, now, Sloth," He said in a tone that a parent would use to scold their child, "You need to keep working. Remember what Pride told you? What your Father told you?" He asked.
Sloth just turned around and headed towards the hole, "Don't...want...to...work... but...have...to..." He said as he jumped down and began digging, soldiers swarmed the hole to watch and Envy just smiled.
"That is a new Chimera," He told everyone, "He has poor social skills and has a hard time telling if someone is his ally or not, but he's working to make this nation even stronger, what he's working right now is going to help you soldiers of Briggs against Drachma when he's done!" He said with an innocent smile.
He glanced at all the soldiers, "This is still top secret, only a handful of soldiers know about this, and I'm probably going to get one hell of a scolding when I get back to Central, but this shows how much I trust the soldiers of Briggs, and I hope you guys can some day trust me as much as I trust you."
Ed had to admit, Envy was a good talker. He probably already had a few Briggs soldiers wrapped around his fingers by now.
He walked up to Raven.
"Lieutenant General, I think you need to start debriefing Major General Armstrong on whats going on right now, so the Major General knows everything. We shouldn't let our hosts be left in the dark, it's just rude," Envy said to General Raven, but a hidden message was in his tone.
General Raven nodded, and started leading the Major General away while Envy just smiled and walked to the Ishvalan soldier.
"Hello, Major Miles," He greeted, ignoring Miles' supicious gaze, "Would you be kind enough to take me to a phone?" He asked.
Miles raised an eyebrow, "What for?" He asked.
Envy just shrugged innocently, "I want to make a call to Central, tell the guys who are a part of the Chimera Sloth project that we may be a little behind schedual now with how he acted here at Briggs," He said and waved his hand offhandedly, "It's not Fort Briggs fault, in my opinion, what you guys did was very incredible."
Flattery, Envy thought, Flatter the soldiers a little with a few compliments, gain their trust, act nice, don't be supicious. That was what he had to do. It seemed to work a little as Major Miles nodded and began leading him to the phones.
Upon reaching them, Envy nodded as Miles stood beside him and he called Wrath. He was pretty sure Ed might have said something to them about the Homunculus and everything, because he could sense the distrust off of Miles, not only that but he figured out quickly that Miles was actually watching him, maybe buying time for someone?
It didn't matter why, what mattered was that Envy didn't do anything to tip him off about anything.
"Envy" Alphonse started, so he was alive, Envy was starting to wonder if something happened to the brat with his silence since they got to Briggs, though he was a little dissapointed at that too, even more dissapointed when he learned that coffee no longer silenced Al. He learned that when he boarded the train at Central.
"That thing, Sloth...he's a Homunculus?" The younger Elric asked. He was right on too, saw through the 'chimera' lie. But Envy would be disgusted if Alphonse didn't see through it.
Envy nodded his head to himself, Yeah, Sloth is phyiscally the strongest, not only that but the fasters, he thought as he waited for Wrath to pick up his phone, seriously, what could Wrath be doing to take this long?
"What's he doing down their? What's he digging?" Al asked and Envy whistled a tune in his head.
Wouldn't you like to know? he thought, But if you must, he's making a National Transmutation Circle, I'll let you figure out the rest, he said as he heard the click and Wrath answering the phone. Finally.
"Hey, Fuhrer Bradley," Envy greeted, "The Chimera Project may be a little behind schedual," he said and he was pretty sure Wrath was a tad bit confused as to what he was talking about but Envy decided to help him out a little.
"Sloth, the Chimera we have, he kind of caused a bit of confusion here at Briggs, he's back to work now, but you know how it is, he's going to be behind schedual a bit," Envy explained, Wrath had better known what he was talking about, he did send Envy here just to get Sloth back to work!
"Ah, right," Bradley said, "Well, good work, Alfonse," he said, "And the other part?"
Envy shook his head, "Working on it, it's not an easy task you know, but I'll get it done, sir," he said. He had to remain respectful, what with Major Miles next to him and unaware Bradley was a homunculus.
"Well, good luck, Alfonse, I have to go," Wrath said and hung up.
Envy blinked, "Wait wha-!" but he had alerady been hung up on and now Envy was biting back anger, he wasn't done talking yet and Wrath had the arrogance to hang up on him.
He looked to the side to see Miles gesturing for him to stay there for a moment and wakling out the door to talk with another soldier. He wasn't a lip reader but he could tell it was important and leaned against the wall waiting for Miles to come back so he could ask what it was about.
Sure enough, a minute later Miles came back and started talking about it already.
"It seems that General Ravens has gone missing," Miles said.
Envy raised an eyebrow, really? They hadn't been here that long and already he pissed someone off enough to be killed? Envy had to thank whoever did that.
"That's a good thing then," Envy said with a smirk.
Miles eyes widened, "Huh?" He asked.
Envy just cocked his head to the side, "My orders were if anything were to happen to Lieutenant General Ravens, I was allowed to act as I wish. So right now, my actions are the will of the Fuhrer," he said and could see Miles horror at this. So this wasn't what he was expecting huh? Killing Raven just unleashed a bigger threat, they probably thought that Envy and Kimblee would return to Central. How wrong they were.
"Get a car, and Kimblee," Envy ordered and when no one moved he narrowed his eyes. "I said, get a car and Kimblee, I want Kimblee to head down to North City and pick someone up. They should be here by now."
It took a moment before Major Miles nodded and walked off.
"What are you talking about?" Al asked.
Envy smirked, "I had Kimblee call someone earlier, while we were at the train station," He explained merrily, "You'll see who it is soon enough."
Al was silent before realizing who it was by Envys thoughts. "Envy... please if you have any mercy, sanity, or just kindness in you, please don't do this!" Al begged.
Envy laughed a bit, it was a good thing they were in private or else soldiers would think he was crazy, not that he isn't. "You should know me well enough by now, Ally-Boy," He snickered, "So you should already know that I won't call this off."
"Envy...please! You can't do this to Brother!" Al continued, but Envy ignored him.
"I always wondered what kind of person they were. I want to meet them firsthand," He grinned, "Maybe kill them too. Oh! Right in front of Ed! That will be great!"
"Envy...please..." Al's voice was a mere whisper, he probably understood now that nothing was going to break Envy from his path right now.
Envy, who was Fathers Envy, may just be Fathers pyscopathic nature as well. He played the part of both oh so well.
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Ed grumbled as he sat in his cell, it was bad enough that after having to see Sloth put back in that hole that he was placed back in his cell. It was annoying, and to top it off, now Envy was here still using his Brothers body!
Then that bastard Raven had started questioning if he told the Briggs soldiers anything, he had to lie, after all he told Major General about the Homunculi and his brother and Envy, Father. Thankfully the idiot didn't see through his lie and now he was lying dead somewhere, curtousy of the Major General. Bastard got what he deserved.
He was drawn out of his thoughts as he watched Kimblee walk up.
"What do you want?" He demanded, he didn't like that smile on Kimblees face.
Kimblee just hummed a bit, "Hello, Edward. Lieutenant Colonel Abrahms called in for a mechanic to make your arm more for Briggs weather," He said and his smile seemed to turn a bit dangerous, "You see, the Fuhrer and Abrahms have been very concerened for you," He said and Ed understood the message. The Homunculi want to make sure he doesn't get himself killed here. He watched as Kimblee moved to the side to show the Mechanic.
"W-Winry!" Ed yelled out in shock to see her here. "W-What are you doing here?" He screamed.
Winry blinked at Eds outburst and glared, "Hey! I got called up to make adjustments to you arm and leg!" She shot back, "Don't yell at me for it!"
The two just glared at each other. She shouldn't be here! why was she here? Ed demanded in his head, it was dangerous for her to be here and he didn't want her to get hurt!
A click from the door showing it was being close caught their attention.
Both heads turned when Envy walked up with a smile.
"Oh, so you finally arrived, Miss Rockbell," He said cheerfully looking at Winry, but he froze the moment he looked at her.
"Al?" Winry asked, surprised to see him, but not noticing at first Envys frozen form.
Kimblee stared in surprise, taken off guard by Envy's horror at seeing Winry, but smiled, "This is Lieutenant Colonel Alfonse Abrahms," He said, introducing the Homunculus in Envys stead.
Envy just stared at Winry, eyes wide in horror. Ed sure didn't miss the look of confusion, recognization, and horror in the Homunculus eyes. He watched as Envy suddenly reached up and clenched his head as he kneeled over before jerking up and making a mad dash out of the room.
Kimblee just took a drink of his coffee, "Well, that was an interesting introduction, wouldn't you agree?"
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